If you’ve ever played a game of “Telephone” at camp or in school, or sung nursery rhymes or children’s songs that someone else learned from someone else… you’ll get the idea. Things change over time and over distance as they get handed down and passed around. Things, for example, like what a teacher said. […]
Being loving and compassionate, helping or healing others, connects us to God and is therefore living into the meaning of sabbath, not taking us away from it. […]
It would be hard not to talk about racism right now. In the wake of “no indictment” decisions in both the Michael Brown and Eric Garner trials, thousands have taken to the streets in mass protests – and here in Berkeley, the word “riot” has been bandied about and added to the mix, thanks to […]
I love reading the parables. Not just the stories themselves – though I definitely have favorites there and can probably go on about one or two at some point – but I love reading about Jesus’ more intimate teaching moments with his disciples. He spoke to crowds, sometimes huge crowds of people, and when he […]
I’ve been studying the Book of Mark over the last couple of weeks (NRSV, with the KJV for comparison), and one thing that jumped out at me was that Jesus was an introvert. Not in the sense of being shy or withdrawn around others, (which from all accounts, he wasn’t), but by the definition I’ve […]